A Cookie Recipe!

My friends at Knit for Unity: Across the Globe  and Maryhill Integration Network know I’m more than a little bit partial to home baking.  These cookies went down so well that several knitters asked for the recipe. I’m strugging to upload it to our Facebook page, so here it is…

Ingredients

 1 ½ cups caster sugar

1 cup butter or margarine (Stork is very good)

1 egg

1 teaspoon liquid vanilla flavouring

½ teaspoon liquid almond flavouring (optional)

2 ½ cups plain white flour

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

 

Method

Preheat oven to 175 degrees C. Line two baking sheets with non-stick baking paper.

Mix the sugar and butter / margarine until pale and fluffy, then add the egg, vanilla and almond flavouring and mix again until everything is well combined.

Sift the flour, salt, baking powder and cream of tartar, and then stir the dry ingredients into the egg mixture to make cookie dough.

Using your hands, take a piece of dough about the size of a walnut and roll it gently between your palms to make a round ball. Put it on the cookie sheet. Repeat until you have 12 balls, then fill the second sheet in the same way.  You may need to bake the cookies in two batches.  Do not place the balls too close together as the cookies will spread as they cook!

Bake at 175 degrees C for 8 – 10 minutes, 8 minutes for a softer cookie, 10 minutes for a harder version. Take the cookies out of the over and carefully slide them onto a cooling rack. The cookies will be very soft, but will harden as they cool.

Eat as soon as they’re cool enough to handle! The cookies will keep for a week in an airtight box, assuming the Cookie Monsters in your household don’t get there first.